Improvement in flag-staff holders



the flag is to be placed. B is the socket for UNITED STATES PATENT 'OFFIon.

' AUGUST. KOELSOH, on new YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVMENT IN FLAG-STAFF HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 178,012, dated May 30, 1876; application filed Y May 12, 1876. v

To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, AUGUST KoELsoH, of New;York, in the State of New York, have invented anew and Improved Flag-Stafl' Holder, of which thefollo'wing'is a specification:

The nature of my invention consists of a socket made of wire, bent in a spiral shape to form a cylinder or tube to receive the flagstafi, the lower end of which is attached tea 1 suitable plate diagonally to its face,"'and the upper end of which is secured by oneor more braces to the topof said plate to hold it in its desired position.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure I represents a side view of the flag-stafl'holder embodying my invention. Fig. 11 is a top view of the same.

A is a plate, of any desired shape, provided with suitable holes to fasten the same against the wall ofa building or' other place where the flag-staff, made of wire, bent ina spiral shape to form a cylinder or tube, to receive and support the flag-staif. The lower end of this socket is attached to the lower end of the plate A, so that the socket B will project diagonally to the face of the plate A. The upper end of this socket is attached through one or more braces, (J, to the upper part of the plate A. The braces Omay be arranged with screws and nuts, to enable the same being lengthened or shortened, for the purpose of changing the inclination of thewire socket B ln-relation to the face of the plate A; but generally I make this inclination about sixty de grees. 7

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- A As a new article of manufacture, the herein-described socket for flag-staffs, consisting of the combination of the plate A, the wire cylinder or tube B, attached diagonally to the plate A, and the brace or braces 0, arranged and constructed in the manner and for the purpose substantially as set forth.

HENRY E. RoEDER, J. B. N ONES- 

